{"id":218615,"date":"2021-04-04T00:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T21:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-wait-to-play-is-so-very-weird\/"},"modified":"2021-04-04T00:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T21:43:50","slug":"mets-wait-to-play-is-so-very-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-wait-to-play-is-so-very-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets’ wait to play is so very ‘weird’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mets’ wait to play is so very ‘weird’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 If the term \u201cchillax\u201d didn\u2019t already exist, a clever writer (not me, in other words) would\u2019ve coined it Saturday afternoon at Nationals Park while watching the Mets.<\/p>\n

For while 28 other major league teams played game<\/a>s that count, and as the Nationals worked to get their COVID-inflicted house in order, the Mets gallivanted around the ballpark like Homer Simpson in The Land of Chocolate, not a care in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is weird,\u201d manager Luis Rojas acknowledged. \u201cWe\u2019re watching games, we\u2019re seeing everybody\u2019s playing in the league, but at the same time, we understand this is the situation happ<\/a>ening. It\u2019s really tough to control once it happens. What can you do? We\u2019re trying to do the best facing the circumstances right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mets remain 0-0 through no fault of their own, the Nationals experiencing a mini-outbreak of the novel coronavirus that compelled Major League Baseball to correctly postpone the entire season-opening, three-game series<\/a>, which would\u2019ve started Thursday, featured the standard Friday off-day after Opening Day and then wrapped up Saturday and Sunday. They aim to begin their season Monday night against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park, understanding that they\u2019ll eventually have to make up those three contests; they come to the nation\u2019s capital twice more and the clubs exist close enough geographically that finding a common off day also stands as a possibility.<\/p>\n

Rojas did put his guys to work on Saturday, scheduling a two-hour simulated game that followed an hour and a half of batting practice, grounders for the infielders and \u2026 not much else. On a scale of 1 to Kirk Gibson, the intensity level stood at about 0.5. It was the sort of scene in which Dom Smith, standing with his fellow outfielders in short left field, dove to the ground in a humorous fashion, getting everyone else in his group to laugh uproariously. And in which Luis Guillorme, standing on the infield dirt between second base and third base, literally threw his glove at a Francisco Lindor groundball to the left side in his half-hearted, half-humorous attempt to slow it down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guys are out there having fun,\u201d Rojas said, and the team will work out here again Sunday morning before heading north to the City of Brotherly Love.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re a worrier (and you probably are, if you root for the Mets), then you can meet your daily angst quota by wondering whether this unscheduled four-day respite, after completing a solid Grapefruit League and after Lindor signed a 10-year, $341-million extension, will throw the Mets out of sync. Especially as the Phillies, no slouches, should have three games under their belt already.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re going to be as pumped [as they were Thursday], if not more,\u201d Rojas said. \u201cThe guys are ready. They\u2019re ready to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can share with you guys, there was a letdown [at Thursday\u2019s postponement]. There was a sense of, we wanted to play. But the guys are in a good spot right now. They\u2019re here. \u2026 They\u2019ll be ready by Monday. They\u2019re excited for it. That\u2019s all I can share. We\u2019ll be ready and excited once again. It\u2019ll be our Opening Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rojas admitted to binge-watching baseball that counted, as his team\u2019s baseball didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we can take something out of it,\u201d he said. \u201cYou watch. You see some of the things you can detail from teams you\u2019re going to see down the road. You can write them down, take notes. There\u2019s some opportunity, even though it\u2019s kind of weird.\u201d<\/p>\n

So very weird. So very 2021, unfortunately carrying over from 2020. For everything positive going on around these Mets, that weirdness might very well prove as defining a characteristic of this season as anything else.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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